Aircraft designs from Messerschmitt's early glider projects to WWII, and the sophisticated machines evolved in post WWII.
This book is a biography of the company built by Willy Messerschmitt. A company that produced some of the world’s significant advances in aviation design and production.
The cutaway drawings of the Bf 109E, the Bf 110G, the Me 163B and the Me 262 are detailed and of the highest class showing design as well as structural detail. All of the company’s aircraft designs through WW II are discussed with the late 2oth century aircraft MBB Bo 105 helicopter and Panavia MRCA addressed with captioned photographs. The description of the WW II aircraft is rich in both design and exploits of the aircraft — with many photographs underscoring the information of the text. Willy Messerschmitt and his company led the way in regard to high speed flight with the MiG 15 and F-86 benefiting from the Me 262 and the X-1’s rocket propulsion from the Me 163 Komet.